Following the 2024 Jubaland presidential election, the Somali federal government refused to recognise the newly elected president Ahmed Madobe[4] citing the lack of universal suffrage since the election was held based on the old indirect clan system where the electorate consisted of 75 individuals from prominent clans in the region.

The federal government had requested the election be delayed until 2025 when plans for universal suffrage would be implemented.

[5] Madobe ignored this request and both the federal responded by stationing more troops in the region.

On November 27, 2024, a gunfight broke out in the town of Raskamboni in the Badhadhe District near the border with Kenya between the Darawiish and Somali National Army.

[1] That day, the federal government announced an arrest warrant for Darawiish leader, chairman of the Raskamboni Movement and Jubaland president Ahmed Madobe accusing him of high treason, sharing classified information with a foreign power, and undermining Somalia's constitutional framework.